derekp7

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by derekp7 8y ago
This is something I don't understand. If you have more than 1 camera, you can run an edge detection algorithm on the images from each camera and use simple trig to build up a 3d model of what is in front of the car. This can easily d
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by derekp7 8y ago
Take a look at http://dag.wiee.rs/howto/ssh-http-tunneling/ for one example. Essentially, you tell ssh to use another program to proxy the connection. That program (such as proxytunnel) connects to an http /
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by derekp7 8y ago
Not a showstopper, as you can tunnel ssh over https. Also there's the option of using your phone as a hotspot (thank you unlimited plans).
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by derekp7 8y ago
Combined with a healthy dose of AI to minimize the pain of interacting with the machines, and to have information that you need right when you need it. Communication with implants, such as continuous glucose monitoring to present you with a
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by derekp7 8y ago
I had a thought, wondering if it could work. For anyone who has the means, you can set up a basic income for your children by contributing about 350/month from the time they are born, then assuming 7% growth there will be over 250K si
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by derekp7 8y ago
Do you think this is due to a difference between working at a place that has software requiring a specific non-computer related skill set (such as medical diagnostics software), vs being at a place that hires primarily CS grads for regular
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by derekp7 8y ago
I wouldn't use the word clowns, because they are really good at other areas. In this case, the developers focus on a development environment that isn't widely used in the US, and I believe that they haven't had a formal CS e
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by derekp7 8y ago
My experience, as someone who isn't a professional full-time developer (systems engineer / devops focused), but who personally geeks out on CS theory, is I find it fairly rare for developers that I work with that think of Big O co
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by derekp7 8y ago
"it's not that weird that managers make more than employees" -- this is something that I really never understood, where it is expected that everyone under a manager makes less than them. At least considering what each role b
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by derekp7 8y ago
The interest though isn't debt -- as soon as you sell the property, you only owe at that time the remaining balance, not the total amount of interest you would pay. In other words, interest is what you pay to rent the money used to buy
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by derekp7 8y ago
Yes, I meant LEO (weird, can't figure out how I made that typo) -- or VLEO is the new term for what SpaceX is trying to do.
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by derekp7 8y ago
I think the problem is not enough companies have a robust technical career ladder. There should be technical equivalents to each management position, that would have some overlap with management responsibilities (mentorship, translating bu
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by derekp7 8y ago
Can you rely on that as your only internet coverage though? Most of the "unlimited" plans start to degrade the service once you go over 20 GB/month. Of course, depending on what you are using it for it could work (such as s
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by derekp7 8y ago
This will hopefully change in a few years, esp. with low-latency GEO satellite internet coverage (SpaceX, and other competitors).
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by derekp7 8y ago
Are mortgages really debt though? Because even though you owe, you also own as much as you owe (except during a market downturn of course). Whereas debt for a depreciating asset (like a car, or most things that go on a credit card) are wh
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by derekp7 8y ago
Are there any park-n-rides in the areas that are a long commute from city centers? Basically, where you can have cheap housing (because it is far away), then drive to a large parking structure to pick up a bus, light rail, or commuter trai
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by derekp7 8y ago
Then you run into issues with things like sewer / water / trash disposal, and also funneling those people into and out of those parcels. And you need to take away some of those parcels for increased shopping capacity, parks &#x2F
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by derekp7 8y ago
Looks like this article has been posted on multiple blogs -- the oldest one I found was on glassdoor's blog.
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by derekp7 8y ago
How much did their education cost? At least in the US, doctors don't make that much after student loan payments, insurance, etc.
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by derekp7 8y ago
Different people's brains process information in different ways. Others are better at absorbing information through text, and yet others need hands-on experience to learn something. There's a reason for the phrase "a pictur
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by derekp7 8y ago
This is the thing that gets me, is that if a piece of hardware has firmware that you can't replace then it is OK to use. But if they add the functionality to replace the firmware, then it all of a sudden is not OK to use that hardware
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by derekp7 8y ago
The mortgage interest deduction is all but gone now for most people. Since the new tax code gets rid of dependent exemptions, and replaces it with a larger standard deduction (24K for married filing jointly), combined with the cap on SALT t
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by derekp7 8y ago
And that's the beauty of electric charging -- you actually CAN go do something else for that half hour, whereas with gas you have to stay in attendance of the pump (safety reasons). Which means that you can top off your charge while at
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by derekp7 8y ago
Look for a video on YouTube called Git Happens. I've found it fairly effective with my coworkers. It doesn't go over the command syntax, but instead dives into a logical overview of the underlying data structures.
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by derekp7 8y ago
Just out of curiosity, is it actually legal for the FBI to send someone a package, then use that package as pretense to arrest them? I thought there were all sorts of rules against that.
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by derekp7 8y ago
I saw a post on Reddit at the time of this incident, from someone who claimed to be a former Uber backup driver. The claim was that Uber was too strict with regards to cell phones, and that if you were caught interacting with your phone wh
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by derekp7 8y ago
What if the ammunition was faulty, and a case of it blew up in someones car killing a pedestrian next to it? Or a gas leak in the fuel line that dripped onto a faulty underground electric cable, igniting and causing injury?
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by derekp7 8y ago
So if a cab gets in an accident, then the person who hail'd the cab should be liable? What if it is an autonomous cab? If an automated elevator fails and kills someone, is the person that pushed the call button liable? This is someth
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by derekp7 8y ago
With chip based cards, cash has become faster. At least this is the case with the card reader at the cafeteria at work, where you can hum most of the Jeopardy theme while waiting for the machine to do its thing. Whereas cash customers mov
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by derekp7 8y ago
The regulations need to be reasonable (i.e., "no more cars allowed on the road" would prevent deaths, but isn't reasonable). And they should take previous regulations into account, to make sure that they don't cause mor

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